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Dr. Fenton and Dr. Hefner Selected for National Standards Committee
The Department of Anthropology is honored to announce that Dr. Todd Fenton and Dr. Joseph Hefner have been selected as inaugural members of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) Subcommittee on Anthropology. This is part of the larger organization, National Institute of Justice and National Institute on Standards and Technology, made up of more […]
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TLE Award Allows Purchase of XRF Instrument
With increasing archaeological applications of natural and physical scientific technology, there is an increased need to train students in their principles, application, interpretation and reporting. By doing this, students are able to compete successfully in a changing employment landscape. Working in tandem with Prof Tyrone Rooney (Geological Sciences), William Lovis and Rooney were awarded a […]
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Spring 2015 Newsletter
The Department of Anthropology is proud to present the newest edition of the biannual newsletter. Our Spring 2015 issue features these articles: Spring 2015 Message from the Acting Chair: Dr. Laurie Medina Dr. Fenton and Dr. Hefner Selected for National Standards Committee TLE Award Allows Purchase of XRF Instrument Featured Faculty Member: Dr. Andrea Louie […]
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Indigenous Graduate Student Collective: e-maamawizijig giizhiikamoowaad akinoowamaadiwinan
In November 2012, Anthropology PhD students including Adam Haviland, Marie Schaefer, Kehli Henry, Nikki Silva, and Mike Cavanaugh, and law students from the Indigenous Law Program, including Sarah Donnelly, Nellie David and John Simermeyer, started a new graduate student organization at MSU for American Indian/indigenous students and other students interested in indigenous issues and scholarship. […]
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Environmental Archaeology Research Partnership
In 1974 and 1975 Professor William Lovis performed the original archaeological survey for what would become Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore – one of Michigan’s premier tourist destinations. Lovis had an opportunity to return to Sleeping Bear during summer 2014 as part of an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental, inter-institutional partnership with the National Park Service to investigate […]
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Alumna Dr. Julie Pelletier: Working with Indigenous Communities
Dr. Julie Pelletier’s planned to specialize in medical anthropology when she arrived at MSU. However, her academic career took a different direction when she was awarded doctoral research funding by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to conduct a project on indigenous identity. She completed the PhD program in 2002, after being hired […]
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Featured Adjunct: Dr. Jamil Hanifi
Dr. M. Jamil Hanifi was born and raised in an urban Pashtun tribal social environment in preindustrial Afghanistan. He maintains native-level competence in Farsi and Pashtu- the two major languages of Afghanistan. He holds a BSc in police administration and MA in political science from Michigan State University. With innocent ambivalence and a novice academic […]
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Featured Retired Faculty: Dr. Ken David
Dr. Ken David decided on Anthropology during his senior year at Wesleyan University of Connecticut. His major was the College of Letters (CoL). The CoL taught you to be a critic of literature, of historical accounts, and of philosophical works; this experience incited Dr. David to work quite directly with peoples’ thoughts and activities. He […]
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Featured Faculty Member: Dr. Andrea Louie
Dr. Louie launches a new research project on shifting international student identities in the context of post-industrial Michigan, building on her previous body of work examining Chineseness in the context of transnational migration, globalization, and government projects of inclusion and exclusion in both China and the U.S. As an undergraduate, Dr. Louie majored in History and Anthropology at […]
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Graduate Student Awards, Grants and Fellowships
Lisa Bright received a Cultural Heritage Informatics and a Campus Archaeology Program Fellowship Sylvia Deskaj was awarded a NSF subsidized grant to analyze a portion of her dissertation material using the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History, graduate student travel grant from Archaeological Institute of America, Alliances for Graduate Education and […]